CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Duty and Assessment

Job overview

This is a brilliant opportunity for a dedicated healthcare professional to join our Duty & Assessment team and promote and improve the mental health and well-being of Children, Young People and those who care for them.  Working for North Manchester CAMHS,  you’ll work with Children and Young People aged up to 18 years and who present with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.  You’ll be supported to manage a defined caseload and have the responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people.  We’ll rely on you to ensure there is effective and sensitive communication between, the Children and Young People in your care, those who care for them, the health professionals you work with and other relevant agencies. MFT CAMHS sits within Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) and is comprised of 44 separate  services, including 5 Core CAMHS services (North, South, Salford, Central & Trafford), Looked After Children/Adoption services, Children with Disabilities Service and Manchester Eating Disorders Service, along with Inpatient Services based at Galaxy House.  Wherever your interests lie, we’ll support you to develop your skills to become an expert in your field.

Let us tell you more about what the job involves and why this could be your next and best career move – you just need the right skills, experience and attitude so you can meet the needs and demands of the critical and life enhancing role for our patients.

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To assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload and exercise the highest standards of professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and their families/carers using specialist knowledge and evaluation of care programmes in collaboration with children, young people and their families/carers,  liaising with and referring to relevant agencies.

To participate in a duty rota  including receipt and screening of referrals, obtaining further information if needed and responding promptly to emergency requests for assessments or contact, signposting, and advice.

To undertake assessment of children, young people including risk assessment, gathering appropriate information their family/ carers and other relevant agencies

To develop a formulation and plan for intervention with the child, young person and parents/carers. Communicate this to the referrer/other relevant professionals

To offer therapeutic, evidence-based practiced, interventions in line with NICE guidelines.

To implement, co-ordinate and regularly review further assessment and a range of therapeutic interventions, including risk management,

To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROM) 

Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of assessment and treatment

The role involves travel to other locations within MFT and within the local community. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.